1. to strike or dash against , τί τινι (Iliad by Homer); ἀψῖδα πέτρῳ πρ. letting it dash against , (Euripides); τὸν πρὶν ὄλβον ἕρματι πρ. to wreck his happiness on a rock, (Aeschulus Tragicus); πρ. θηρία τινί to set them on him, (Demosthenes Orator); πρ. δόρυ τινί (Euripides):—;without any notion of violence, to put to, apply , μαλακὰν χέρα πρ. [ ἕλκει] of a surgeon, (Pindar); πρ. παρειὰν παρηίδι (Euripides); ὄμματα τέκνοις (Euripides) 2. to assign to, procure for , κέρδος τινί (Herdotus Historicus); πρ. Λακεδαιμονίοις Ὀλυμπιάδα to give them the honour of an Olympic victory, (Herdotus Historicus); πρ. κακὸν τῇ πόλει (Aeschulus Tragicus); εὔκλειαν σαυτῇ (Sophocles Tragicus); πρ. δεῖμά τινι, Lat. incutere timorem alicui, (Euripides) 3. with accusative of the object struck, ἀρούρας προσβάλλειν, of the Sun, to strike the earth with his rays, (Homer); of smells, βροτοῦ [ ὀσμὴ] με προσέβαλε (Aristophanes Comicus) 4. metaphorically to attend to a thing or to add , (Sophocles Tragicus) 5. μή μ᾽ ἀνάγκῃ προσβάλῃς τάδ᾽ εἰκαθεῖν do not drive me by force to give way, (Sophocles Tragicus) 6. intransitive to strike against, to make an attack or assault upon , τινί (Aeschulus Tragicus), etc.; πρὸς τὸ τεῖχος (Herdotus Historicus):—;absolute to attack, charge , (Herdotus Historicus); προσβαλὼν αἱρεῖ τὴν πόλιν by assault , (Xenophon Historicus) 7. to put in with a ship, ἐς τὸν λιμένα (Thucydides); πρὸς Τάραντα (Thucydides); with dative, Σικελίᾳ (Thucydides) 8. Mid. to throw oneself upon, attack , τινα (Iliad by Homer) (ML)